Here we are providing integrated reproductive health topics especillay in care, support, advice and treatments designed to help couples who are finding it difficult to conceive to get pregnant, and to help women who are already pregnant to have the healthiest pregnancy and healthiest baby possible.
Your Guide to Being 3 Weeks Pregnant: A brand new life begins Your egg contains an X chromosome. Each sperm contains either an X (girl) chromosome or a Y (boy) chromosome, and your child’s gender is determined by which sperm fertilises your egg. Boy sperm swim faster but die sooner. Girl sperm last longer…
Your guide to the second week of pregnancy What’s happening Oestrogen also thins the mucus in your cervix (the entrance to your womb), to allow your partner’s sperm to swim through into your womb and up the fallopian tubes to meet your egg. Sperm is usually prevented from doing this by the thickness of the…
Your guide to the first week of pregnancy: What’s happening So the first two weeks of your baby’s ‘life’ are spent as an unripened egg inside one of your ovaries and a sperm inside your partner’s testicles. But there’s plenty going on, as your body prepares itself for the beginning of your next monthly cycle….
